Taking Stock of Educational R&D: Joint OECD-CORECHED International Expert Meeting

Over the past 5 years, CERI has conducted reviews of educational R&D in five countries: New Zealand, England, Mexico, Denmark and Switzerland. The first two were published in the OECD report (2003) New Challenges for Educational Research; the last three have been published separately as individual reviews. The reviews have formed an important part of CERI’s work on knowledge management and on the use of evidence in educational policy-making (see also Innovation in the Knowledge Economy: Implications for Education and Learning (2004), and a recent publication on Evidence in Education: Linking Research to Policy (2007)). At the CERI Governing Board meeting held in November 2006, on the occasion of the discussion of the Swiss report the Board agreed that there should be a stocktake of the lessons learnt over the course of this cycle of reviews – a ‘review of reviews’. This is the main purpose of this international expert meeting, jointly organised by CERI and the Swiss Council for Educational Research (CORECHED).

Objectives of the meeting:

- to synthesise the lessons learnt from the five reviews, and the general conclusions which can be drawn;
- to take stock of subsequent developments in the particular countries, including an assessment of the impact of the review; and
- to reflect on the review process and its implications for future OECD work of this kind.

• Agenda
• List of participants

Papers

• A report on the responses to the CERI questionnaire on the reviews
• Background paper : Measuring the resources allocated to educational development in OECD countries, by Phillip McKenzie,  Australian Council for Educational Research
• "Towards more knowledge-based policy and practice in education and training", Commission of the European Communities, Commission staff working document

Presentations

Introduction

• Educational Research and Development, Ursula Renold, Education and Technology (OPET) 
• Overview of OECD work on educational R&D, Tom Schuller, OECD, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, France 
• Taking stock of educational R&D: results of the questionnaire, Francesc Pedro, OECD, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

Update on new developments

• New Zealand's experience, Frances Kelly, New Zealand Embassy, Ministry of Education, Belgium
• Educational R&D: Uptake on new developments - The Danish Case, Jorn Skovsgaard, Ministry of Education, Denmark
• National update: England, Stephen Witt, Department for Children, Families and Schools, UK
• Mexico - Update on new developments in education R&D, Sylvia Schmelkes del Valle, Secretariat of Public Education, Mexico

The supply side of educational R&D:

• The gap between educational R&D and practice: views from the Netherlands and Flanders, Marijk van der Wende, University of Twente, Netherlands
• The supply side: Capacity building and the creation of appropriate incentives, Judy Sebba, University of Sussex, UK
• Taking stock of educational R&D, Mats Ekholm, University of Karlstad, Sweden

The demand side of educational R&D:

• Research and development - the demands side, Jorn Skovsgaard, Ministry of Education, Denmark
• The demand side of educational research and development, Rudolf Tippelt, LMU, München, Germany
• Demand for and impact of educational research in Iceland, Allyson Macdonald, Iceland University of Education

Opportunities for international collaboration on monitoring the development of educational R&D

• Opportunities for international collaboration on monitoring the development of educational R&D: introductory remarks, Sylvia Schmelkes del Valle, Secretariat of Public Education, Mexico